{"id":5552,"date":"2006-11-06T11:13:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T16:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2013-02-12T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:51:25","slug":"i-wanted-to-be-lily-tomlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5552","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I wanted to be Lily Tomlin.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/movies\/profiles\/23775\/\">Awesome interview with Emma Thompson<\/a> in this weekend&#8217;s <i>New York Magazine<\/i>.  I love it because she&#8217;s talking about the books she loved.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oddly enough, I\u0092m probably still vaguely Victorian. Moderns are just different. As a child, my mind latched onto a kind of Victorian morality, which I don\u0092t necessarily think did me that much good, to be honest. It\u0092s not ideal. I suppose there\u0092s something spinal, there\u0092s something that lives in your ganglia, that connects you to past moral models, and it\u0092s very difficult to unhook yourself from them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uhm, yes?<\/p>\n<p>Also, I love it because she is one of those rare people who is just <i>wired<\/i> comedically.  If there is <i>humor<\/i> in a situation &#8211; she will sniff it out.  This is not a natural gift.  It is a very rare gift.  I gravitate towards such people in my own life.  I love them.  I love her &#8211; can&#8217;t wait to see her next film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome interview with Emma Thompson in this weekend&#8217;s New York Magazine. I love it because she&#8217;s talking about the books she loved. Oddly enough, I\u0092m probably still vaguely Victorian. Moderns are just different. As a child, my mind latched onto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5552\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1899,2167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64086,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/64086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}